Author:

• Luiza Maria de Assunção - Assunção, L.M - <luassunc@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6106-1200

Co-author(s):

• Rosimár Alves Querino - Querino, R.A - <rosimar.querino@uftm.edu.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7863-1211

Abstract:

Introduction: The profession of faith healers makes up Brazilian religious culture. Objectives: The aim is to understand how the profession of faith healers, in a municipality in Minas Gerais, can impact the health-disease-care process in the territories served by the Family Health Strategy of the Unified Health System. It also seeks to identify how primary care workers position themselves in relation to the presence of the practice of blessing. Methodology: This is qualitative research , based on semi-structured interviews, the perceptions of faith healers, users and nurses are recovered. To treat the content of the interviews, reflective thematic analysis was used. Pierre Bourdieu was taken as a theoretical guide to reflect on the autonomy of fields of knowledge and their disputes. Results: The following categories were identified: Representations about practice; Health and Religiosity/Spirituality; Relationships with blessing. Conclusions: The relationship between the fields is not just one of conflict. There is an availability of the subjects that are part of them that has placed them in communication. In this sense, biomedical knowledge and blessing knowledge, although distinct and fulfilling specific functions, can be allies in the health-illness-care process.

Keywords:

Primary health care. Family Health Strategy. Traditional medicine. Spirituality. Humanization of assistance.

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